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Encouraging Fracking, Britain Offers More Than 150 Sites for Exploration

2015-12-17 17:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The British government, in an effort to stoke interest from energy companies in extracting fuels from shale rock, said on Thursday that it was offering licenses for oil and gas exploration on 159 tracts of land. The government said that 75 percent of the licenses being offered related to areas thought to contain shale gas or oil. Most of the blocks are in Northwest and Northeast England, and are believed to have substantial shale potential. We need to get shale gas moving, Britains energy minister,...

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UK to allow shale gas fracking beneath national parks

2015-12-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: British lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favor of the use of fracking to extract shale gas under national parks, weakening a decision against fracking in national parks made earlier this year and giving shale gas explorers access to more resources. Britain is estimated to have substantial amounts of gas trapped in underground shale rocks and Prime Minister Cameron has pledged to go all-out to extract these reserves, to help offset declining North Sea oil and gas output. But the use of fracking,...

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UK government hands out new fracking licences

2015-12-17 14:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The governments controversial attempt to establish a shale gas industry in the UK took another step forward on Thursday as it handed out new licences for onshore gas and oil exploration in 159 blocks, in a move campaigners say could open up swaths of the country to the controversial practice of fracking. Before companies can go ahead and start producing oil and gas commercially, they have to submit to a series of safety and environmental checks, though campaigners have always maintained these...

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